John 10:14-15 NASB95
I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, [15] even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. In union with our humanity, Christ was raised from the dead, and we were raised in him as New Creations. In His ascension, He carried us in His humanity into the presence of the Father and the Holy Spirit to share in the intimate fellowship of the burning heart of the triune God. In those verses listed above, the word “know” is the Greek word for “experiential knowledge,” not just head knowledge. Jesus says that His “own” experiences Him even as the Father experiences Him, and He experiences the Father. Being in Christ seated in heavenly places, Jesus shares with us the Father’s extraordinary affection and joy in Him as ours, and we are one with His extraordinary affection and joy in the Father. What a remarkable reality! Instead of striving for nearness, affection, and favor with the Father, we participate in the nearness, affection, and favor Jesus as with the Father. We have this relationship not because we are well pleasing to the Father because of anything we’ve done but because we are well placed in Christ. Having been grafted into the Sonship of Jesus, we are co-heirs with Him, enjoying all that He is and all that He has, including His hilariously joyful and eternally secure relationship with the Father. Song of Solomon 6:13b speaks of our relationship with God in Christ as “the dance of the two companies.” What a beautiful description of our participation in the dance of the human with the divine in Christ.